In Australia (which has a sane date format), people tend to say either "The second of August two thousand and six" or "August the second two thousand and six".
I take issue with this. I don't ride a bike, but I know people who do.
People who ride bikes are many, many, many times more likely to hurt themselves than a driver of a car. In fact of all the people I have known who ride bikes, I can think of only one (a weekend rider) who has not had a serious accident, and by serious I mean an accident involving physical damagesignificant.
What is more, in many of those cases the accidents have been caused by car drivers. Motorcyclists don't need 5kg of explosive, they take their life in their own hands each time they ride.
I think you need to go back and re-read your comments. You have just said that a significant minority of Israeli citizens are not people. You also said that about all arab people. I'm confused as to why you see others as seeing others as not "people", on the grounds of irrationality.
Please note I said people, not Lebanese people in general. Yes I still see an issue with calling Hezbollah terrorists cockroaches. That said, it was unclear from your comment whether you were referring to the Lebanese people as cockroaches or not. After all Israel is bombing Lebanese infrastructure after all, I could assume that bombing is part of the process of dealing with the cockroach problem.
And you better understand that Israeli see arabs as exactly the same people as they are, but I am not Israeli.
I would like to believe that, I really would. However I do not believe that is the case. I have had friends visit Israel and some have spoken of the inequality before the law when comparing Jewish Iraelis to non-Jewish Iraelis. I've read enough from other sources to suggest that there is an inequality.
But that aside, if one Israeli life was worth just as much as one Arab life, why are the body counts of current conflict in Lebanon skewed? Surely if one life was equal, Israel would feel equal pain at the death of a lebanese civilian and an Israeli civilian? Or Hezbollah militia member and an IDF soldier?
Equally in the conflicts in Gaza have shown a similar picture. How about the time Israel dropped a one ton bomb on an apartment block to kill one man, killing 14 others in the process, 7 of them children (please note, I had to google up the details on this and grabbed the first result, I have no idea what views are expressed in the site)? That was an attack that was considered a success. Are the Palestinians allowed to kill 14 Israeli civilians along with an IDF General?
I'm sorry, but I just cannot believe that the government or the majority of the people of Israel consider that 1 Israeli life is worth 1 arab life.
I want to make my position clear. I allow that civilian deaths, while regrettable, are a fact of life in military conflicts. I accept that Hezbollah chooses fight near and amoung civilian populations. I accept that Israel has a right to defend itself and that it is largely surrounded by hostile or indifferent neighbors. However Israel should respond in proportion to that offence. Bombing power plants and roads in Lebanon is not in proportion.
I'd agree it is difficult to find a similar case of occupation to Iraq.
I think it is difficult to find a country that has as many problems as Iraq in terms of its ethnic and religious makeup. The only country I can think of is 1990s Yugoslavia.
...but the US has never been loved by much of the world, ever
That isn't correct.
After the second world war and before the cold war really got going, America was much loved by the rest of the world. Particularly after things like the Marshall plan. America was seen as a place of freedom and indeed an example. In fact I think you might even be able to stretch that back to post WWI to shortly after WWII.
And since you mention 9/11, in much of the world (outside many muslim countries), there was a lot of sympathy for America as a result of 9/11. That isn't quite the same as being loved, but it is getting there.
This is about survival. If Israel does not take care of this cockroach problem today, there maybe no Israel tomorrow. 5-6 million surrounded by 500-900 million enemies, that is not a simple life. Israel is strategically is in a pickle, there are too many enemies. So it is always a better tactic to kill as many enemies today as possible and continue killing the enemies and not negotiating with them.
I would support Israel if their response was in proportion. But they are bombing Lebanese civilian infrastructure. I object to this on two grounds:
1. It is stupid because it will increase the support for someone willing to hi back at Israel (ie Hezbolla) 2. It is not attacking Hezbolla, it is attacking the wider Lebanese people.
Can I say I think you need to re-adjust your ethics if you are referring to people as cockroaches. One of the problems (IMO) that Israel has in the region is that they seem to view most of the people in surrounding countries as sub-human.
Iraq is taking much longer, but fifty years from now none of the difficulties will be remembered, assuming the effort is successful.
That is quite an assumption.
You were using the example of Japan before. Let's stick with that. Japan is largely homogenous. There are some different people groups (the name for the people group escapes me, but there was one distinct people group on one of the islands, largely overridden in the pre-WWII period). Iraq has three distinct people groups (kurds, Shiites and Sunnis) who have a history of fighting each other and have different religions (or have strong disagreements on religion, which sunnis and shiites have for centuries). So before you even begin in Iraq, it has more problems than Japan.
Add another issue, Japan attacked the US, Iraq didn't.
And one more issue, Japan surrendered and kept what they considered to be important: their emperor. Correct me if I am wrong, but Iraq did not surrender.
BTW I largely agree with your point about a short term view on "nation building". However sometimes the long term view is less rosy than the short term view.
I work on a web application and occasically I train people in using it or demo it to people as part of a sales pitch. Without fail I find bugs, visual inconsistancies or I think of ways that I can make significant improvements. It is something about the change in environment that makes you look at things through new eyes.
I used to think it sucked. Now I am wondering whether we should make it part of the testing cycle:).
Maybe I wasn't entirely clear. The interesting experience was the discovery that in a small country town what might be a private condition could become public. In other words, in a everyone knows everyone else and the public knowledge of any health problems I might have would depend on the whether the pharmacy assistant keeps his/her peace.
I had an interesting experience recently in a small country town (FWIW this is in Autralia).
I went to a chemist in a small country town ( Camerons (I wasn't). It was an interesting experience. If I had been picking up a prescription for something that was highly personal I would have felt very uncomfortable.
That said, there is a big difference between people in my current location knowing about me and people across the whole country (and the world for that matter) knowing about me. Frankly this is a different proposition to the man in the corner store knowing about me.
I post a fair bit of information about myself online under my own name (I have not need to hide behind a nic, I will stand behind the comment I make and if I am wrong, I will admit it) but I am careful about the information I post.
But, as he saw Americans and others being disappeared, jailed and tortured...
OK, here is a question: who give cares whether they are Americans? The fact is that people are disappearing, jailed and tortured by Americans at the behenst of the US Govt.
If you or Linus are not interested in these four freedoms, political or philosophical as they may be, then you should not license your software under the GPL "version 2 or any later version".
If you read the article you will see that Linus decided not to release the kernel under the version 2 or later version. It is released under 2.
He isn't complaining that the FSF has changed the license on him with sufficient input. He is just saying that he thinks it is a stupid idea.
Meanwhile, there are those who want to ban Harry Potter because it portrays witchcraft in a positive light. Never mind that there is the classic battle of Good vs. Evil taking place in Rowling's fantasy world and some of it implies violence on persons (Nearly-Headless Nick, not quite beheaded and the moaning ghost of the girl in the lav who commited suicide.) We have children 8 and 9 years old reading 900 page books, ffs!
I'd be interested to know if they also wanted ban Lord of the Rings or was that exempt because it was written by a Christian.
FWIW I am a Christian and I do support blocking kids from reading some books. It just seems that a lot of this stuff is arbitrary and poorly thought through. I also think that kids can handle a lot more than people give them credit for. I was reading "The thin Red Line" and "All quite on the Western front" when I was 10-11.
Also to have end users suddenly using a new browser right before the holiday shopping season could magnify the cost any bugs that might create a bad user experience on sites
Can we tone the advocacy down a little?
This somehow suggests that this is a bad idea and that it is different from what Microsoft has done in the past. Well IE 5.5, IE 6, IE 6SP1 were all critical updates.
What is more, this is straight editorialising on the part of the submitter or the editor. This isn't a case of a sensationalised article that is being posted on slashdot, the sensationalisation is supplied by the submitter or the editor.
I'm hardly a Microsoft fanboy but this is ridiculous.
No, the purpose is not to defeat terrorism. The purpose is to look like you're defeating terrorism.
No, the purpose is to manage the marshals. They are doing this by trying to measure how effective they are. The side effect is that it adds noise to the list.
Take off the tinfoil hat. If true, this is just plain incompetence rather than malice.
I took MS-SQL classes back to back earlier this year with the first one using SQL server 2003...
There is no SQL Server 2003. There is SQL Server 2000.
In 2003 you had to have 2 or 3 different applications up in order to create a table, populate it with data and then view the table data.
Learn SQL and use Query Analyzer (QA). Seriously, most SQL Server admin and management should be done in QA.
I was constantly trying to do things in the window which didn't allow that action....Plus transact SQL was like an (even more) retarded version of SQL+
Prey, at least, takes the gooey look to its fullest; many of your weapons are actually alive, and some were formerly pieces of enemies. As you're walking along, your weapon might hiss at you menacingly. This little touch is so clever and appreciated that it makes the boring sameness of the enemies and corridors that much more drab.
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In Australia (which has a sane date format), people tend to say either "The second of August two thousand and six" or "August the second two thousand and six".
Every place that speaks English uses d/m/y. Most of the places that speak American use m/d/y.
I take issue with this. I don't ride a bike, but I know people who do.
People who ride bikes are many, many, many times more likely to hurt themselves than a driver of a car. In fact of all the people I have known who ride bikes, I can think of only one (a weekend rider) who has not had a serious accident, and by serious I mean an accident involving physical damagesignificant.
What is more, in many of those cases the accidents have been caused by car drivers. Motorcyclists don't need 5kg of explosive, they take their life in their own hands each time they ride.
Thanks for the info.
I think it would certainly be a good idea if more people understood and knew history.
I think you need to go back and re-read your comments. You have just said that a significant minority of Israeli citizens are not people. You also said that about all arab people. I'm confused as to why you see others as seeing others as not "people", on the grounds of irrationality.
More to the point, what should be done to the editor? This is what editors are for.
You have excluded some strict orthodox jews and southern baptists with that description.
And yes, Israelies consider Arabs to be people, just like themselves, even if I do not.
As a matter of interest, what are your criteria for deciding a group of homo sapiens are not people?
Please note I said people, not Lebanese people in general. Yes I still see an issue with calling Hezbollah terrorists cockroaches. That said, it was unclear from your comment whether you were referring to the Lebanese people as cockroaches or not. After all Israel is bombing Lebanese infrastructure after all, I could assume that bombing is part of the process of dealing with the cockroach problem.
And you better understand that Israeli see arabs as exactly the same people as they are, but I am not Israeli.
I would like to believe that, I really would. However I do not believe that is the case. I have had friends visit Israel and some have spoken of the inequality before the law when comparing Jewish Iraelis to non-Jewish Iraelis. I've read enough from other sources to suggest that there is an inequality.
But that aside, if one Israeli life was worth just as much as one Arab life, why are the body counts of current conflict in Lebanon skewed? Surely if one life was equal, Israel would feel equal pain at the death of a lebanese civilian and an Israeli civilian? Or Hezbollah militia member and an IDF soldier?
Equally in the conflicts in Gaza have shown a similar picture. How about the time Israel dropped a one ton bomb on an apartment block to kill one man, killing 14 others in the process, 7 of them children (please note, I had to google up the details on this and grabbed the first result, I have no idea what views are expressed in the site)? That was an attack that was considered a success. Are the Palestinians allowed to kill 14 Israeli civilians along with an IDF General?
I'm sorry, but I just cannot believe that the government or the majority of the people of Israel consider that 1 Israeli life is worth 1 arab life.
I want to make my position clear. I allow that civilian deaths, while regrettable, are a fact of life in military conflicts. I accept that Hezbollah chooses fight near and amoung civilian populations. I accept that Israel has a right to defend itself and that it is largely surrounded by hostile or indifferent neighbors. However Israel should respond in proportion to that offence. Bombing power plants and roads in Lebanon is not in proportion.
He shoots friends in the face. I don't want know what he does to trespassers.
I'd agree it is difficult to find a similar case of occupation to Iraq.
I think it is difficult to find a country that has as many problems as Iraq in terms of its ethnic and religious makeup. The only country I can think of is 1990s Yugoslavia.
...but the US has never been loved by much of the world, ever
That isn't correct.
After the second world war and before the cold war really got going, America was much loved by the rest of the world. Particularly after things like the Marshall plan. America was seen as a place of freedom and indeed an example. In fact I think you might even be able to stretch that back to post WWI to shortly after WWII.
And since you mention 9/11, in much of the world (outside many muslim countries), there was a lot of sympathy for America as a result of 9/11. That isn't quite the same as being loved, but it is getting there.
This is about survival. If Israel does not take care of this cockroach problem today, there maybe no Israel tomorrow. 5-6 million surrounded by 500-900 million enemies, that is not a simple life. Israel is strategically is in a pickle, there are too many enemies. So it is always a better tactic to kill as many enemies today as possible and continue killing the enemies and not negotiating with them.
I would support Israel if their response was in proportion. But they are bombing Lebanese civilian infrastructure. I object to this on two grounds:
1. It is stupid because it will increase the support for someone willing to hi back at Israel (ie Hezbolla)
2. It is not attacking Hezbolla, it is attacking the wider Lebanese people.
Can I say I think you need to re-adjust your ethics if you are referring to people as cockroaches. One of the problems (IMO) that Israel has in the region is that they seem to view most of the people in surrounding countries as sub-human.
Iraq is taking much longer, but fifty years from now none of the difficulties will be remembered, assuming the effort is successful.
That is quite an assumption.
You were using the example of Japan before. Let's stick with that. Japan is largely homogenous. There are some different people groups (the name for the people group escapes me, but there was one distinct people group on one of the islands, largely overridden in the pre-WWII period). Iraq has three distinct people groups (kurds, Shiites and Sunnis) who have a history of fighting each other and have different religions (or have strong disagreements on religion, which sunnis and shiites have for centuries). So before you even begin in Iraq, it has more problems than Japan.
Add another issue, Japan attacked the US, Iraq didn't.
And one more issue, Japan surrendered and kept what they considered to be important: their emperor. Correct me if I am wrong, but Iraq did not surrender.
BTW I largely agree with your point about a short term view on "nation building". However sometimes the long term view is less rosy than the short term view.
Live demos are fantastic.
:).
I work on a web application and occasically I train people in using it or demo it to people as part of a sales pitch. Without fail I find bugs, visual inconsistancies or I think of ways that I can make significant improvements. It is something about the change in environment that makes you look at things through new eyes.
I used to think it sucked. Now I am wondering whether we should make it part of the testing cycle
Maybe I wasn't entirely clear. The interesting experience was the discovery that in a small country town what might be a private condition could become public. In other words, in a everyone knows everyone else and the public knowledge of any health problems I might have would depend on the whether the pharmacy assistant keeps his/her peace.
I'd agree with this entirely, from my personal (business) experience.
Basically people don't value what they don't spend money on.
I had an interesting experience recently in a small country town (FWIW this is in Autralia).
I went to a chemist in a small country town ( Camerons (I wasn't). It was an interesting experience. If I had been picking up a prescription for something that was highly personal I would have felt very uncomfortable.
That said, there is a big difference between people in my current location knowing about me and people across the whole country (and the world for that matter) knowing about me. Frankly this is a different proposition to the man in the corner store knowing about me.
I post a fair bit of information about myself online under my own name (I have not need to hide behind a nic, I will stand behind the comment I make and if I am wrong, I will admit it) but I am careful about the information I post.
But, as he saw Americans and others being disappeared, jailed and tortured...
OK, here is a question: who give cares whether they are Americans? The fact is that people are disappearing, jailed and tortured by Americans at the behenst of the US Govt.
If you or Linus are not interested in these four freedoms, political or philosophical as they may be, then you should not license your software under the GPL "version 2 or any later version".
If you read the article you will see that Linus decided not to release the kernel under the version 2 or later version. It is released under 2.
He isn't complaining that the FSF has changed the license on him with sufficient input. He is just saying that he thinks it is a stupid idea.
Meanwhile, there are those who want to ban Harry Potter because it portrays witchcraft in a positive light. Never mind that there is the classic battle of Good vs. Evil taking place in Rowling's fantasy world and some of it implies violence on persons (Nearly-Headless Nick, not quite beheaded and the moaning ghost of the girl in the lav who commited suicide.) We have children 8 and 9 years old reading 900 page books, ffs!
I'd be interested to know if they also wanted ban Lord of the Rings or was that exempt because it was written by a Christian.
FWIW I am a Christian and I do support blocking kids from reading some books. It just seems that a lot of this stuff is arbitrary and poorly thought through. I also think that kids can handle a lot more than people give them credit for. I was reading "The thin Red Line" and "All quite on the Western front" when I was 10-11.
Also to have end users suddenly using a new browser right before the holiday shopping season could magnify the cost any bugs that might create a bad user experience on sites
Can we tone the advocacy down a little?
This somehow suggests that this is a bad idea and that it is different from what Microsoft has done in the past. Well IE 5.5, IE 6, IE 6SP1 were all critical updates.
What is more, this is straight editorialising on the part of the submitter or the editor. This isn't a case of a sensationalised article that is being posted on slashdot, the sensationalisation is supplied by the submitter or the editor.
I'm hardly a Microsoft fanboy but this is ridiculous.
No, the purpose is not to defeat terrorism. The purpose is to look like you're defeating terrorism.
No, the purpose is to manage the marshals. They are doing this by trying to measure how effective they are. The side effect is that it adds noise to the list.
Take off the tinfoil hat. If true, this is just plain incompetence rather than malice.
I took MS-SQL classes back to back earlier this year with the first one using SQL server 2003...
There is no SQL Server 2003. There is SQL Server 2000.
In 2003 you had to have 2 or 3 different applications up in order to create a table, populate it with data and then view the table data.
Learn SQL and use Query Analyzer (QA). Seriously, most SQL Server admin and management should be done in QA.
I was constantly trying to do things in the window which didn't allow that action....Plus transact SQL was like an (even more) retarded version of SQL+
s/retarded/standards compliant/
Prey, at least, takes the gooey look to its fullest; many of your weapons are actually alive, and some were formerly pieces of enemies. As you're walking along, your weapon might hiss at you menacingly. This little touch is so clever and appreciated that it makes the boring sameness of the enemies and corridors that much more drab.
Ah, so like Half Life and Opposing Force then? Nice to see cutting edge ideas.